John Francis Mercer

John Francis Mercer (17 May 1759-30 August 1821) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-MD 3) from 5 February 1792 to 3 March 1793 (succeeding William Pinkney and preceding Uriah Forrest) and from MD-2 from 4 March 1793 to 13 April 1794 (succeeding William Hindman and preceding Gabriel Duvall), as well as Governor of Maryland (F) from 10 November 1801 to 13 November 1803 (succeeding Benjamin Ogle and preceding Robert Bowie).

Biography
John Francis Mercer was born in Stafford County, Virginia in 1759, and he served as a Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, during which he was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, served as an aide-de-camp to Charles Lee, and served under the Marquis de Lafayette during his Virginia campaign in 1781. He went on to serve as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1783 to 1784 and in the US House of Representatives from 1792 to 1794. From 1801 to 1803, he served as Governor of Maryland as a Federalist, and he died in 1821.